Here is your Chelsea morning digest for Wednesday, June 3.
The status of Chelsea’s loan army ahead of football’s return
Chelsea have a number of stars spread far and wide across the footballing world with 27 players currently on loan at various clubs.
The enforced break in football has led to a number of leagues cancelling the remainder of the season while the fates of others remain unclear.
For a lot of Blues, different agreements mean different outcomes with some set to return to club, others to stay on loan, and some even set to depart.
Here’s the latest update of the loanees and their respective situations.
Returning midfielder hopes to help fire Blues into Champions League
Ruben Loftus-Cheek could be set to make his long-awaited return to action when the Premier League resumes this month.
The England midfielder has missed the majority of the season after rupturing his Achilles tendon in May last year.
Loftus-Cheek had been set to return in March until football was put on hold.
The break has given the 24-year-old to work his way back up to full fitness and give Frank Lampard a welcome selection headache ahead of the final nine games of the season.
You can read more here.
The unusual training challenges faced by returning Blues stars
Chelsea players returned to training at their Cobham base back in May ahead of an anticipated return to Premier League action.
However, the situation was not one many would have been used to with the government’s phase one strategy requiring groups of no more than five, staying two metres apart and training for less than 75 minutes.
Phase two, which has seen some of these restrictions relaxed, allows for contact in training but still presents a number of challenges.
Players are still being tested on site and changing rooms are inaccessible among other things.
Football London’s Alan Smith looks at how the Blues are adjusting in the new world.
